Letters: Showtime Shoni! Plus: Krugman's 'inflation'

Just read The Oregonian's Sunday sports section ("Schimmel puts on a 'rez ball' show, is MVP," July 20) and I've added an item to my bucket list: watch Shoni Schimmel play basketball — maybe when Schimmel's team, the Atlanta Dream, plays in Seattle against the Storm on August 7. I'll go out on a limb here and predict that Schimmel will get some more playing time with Atlanta.

If not, maybe she should come back to Oregon and help revive our Portland Fire. We have some pretty rabid basketball fans here in Portland. Do you think "Showtime Shoni" and her pals from the "Rez" could get the ol' Moda Center rockin'?

Russ Cazier

Molalla

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Inflation

Paul Krugman's piece, "The right's obsession with nonexistent inflation," (July 20) is a joke. If inflation is a myth, let Krugman explain to my grandson (as I tried to do yesterday) why Motel 6 is called Motel 6. Krugman was around then, so he is either disingenuous, afflicted with dementia, or dishonest.

A room cost six dollars. When was that? And what rate of inflation does it represent? And why is my home worth at least 30 times what I paid for it in 1970?